Calendar attachment for telephones



June 18;-'1 957 W. J. FALK CALENDAR ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONES FiledJanf-24, 195e- Z INVENTOR.

ilnite States Patent CALENDAR ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONES William J. Falk,Paramus, N. J.

Application January 24, 1956, Serial No. 561,129

3 Claims. (Cl. 40--10.5)

This invention relates to calendars.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a calendarattachment for telephones which may be easily and readily mounted uponconventional telephones.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a calendarattachment of the above type wherein the angle of the calendar may beeasily and readily adjusted to accommodate the calendar to telephones ofvarying height.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a calendar attachment fortelephones bearing the above objects in mind which is of simpleconstruction, has a minimum number of parts, is inexpensive tomanufacture and efiicient in use.

For other objects and for a better understanding of the invention,reference may be had to the following detailed description taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the presentinvention shown in operative use;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof taken along the line 2-2 ofFig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a rear perspective view of the invention shown alone; and

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of a blank from which the invention is formed.

Referring now more in detail to the drawing, indicates generally aconventional telephone hand set including the usual pedestal 11, therockers 12 and the finger receiving opening 13 intermediate the rockers,substantially as illustrated.

In the practice of my invention, a calendar attachment is provided forthe telephone 10 and includes the rectangular wall 14 of flexible toughpaper, plastic, thin sheet metal or any other suitable material. Asshown in Fig. 4, the rectangular wall 14 along its lower edge isintegrally formed with the central rectangular, elongated tongue 15along the fold line 16. The wall 14 along its lower edge on either sideof the tongue 15 is also integrally formed with the rectangular baseportions 17 along the fold lines 18, the base portion 17 being in turnintegrally formed with the supports 19 along the fold lines 20. The endsof the supports 19 remote from the base portions 17 are formed with thereduced extensions 21.

The wall 14 is provided with two vertical rows of slots 22, the slots ofeach row being vertically spaced and vertically aligned and beingadapted to receive therein selectively the reduced ends 21 of thesupports 19, as shown in Fig. 3, whereby to vary the angle of the wall14.

A small paper calendar 23 of conventional design is stapled to the frontface of the wall 14 as shown in Fig. 1. The blank of Fig. 4 isassembled, as shown in Fig. 3, by folding the rectangular wall 14upwardly against the horizontal tongue 15 and supporting the same bymeans of the rearwardly folded base portion 17 and the supports 19thereof, the reduced extensions 21 being received within the selectedslots 22. The device is then positioned on the sloping portion 24 (Fig.2) of the pedestal 11 with the tongue 15 extending into the fingeropening 13 and the forward edge thereof being looped rearwardly toengage the lip 25. The tongue 15 is slightly wider than the width of thefinger opening 13 whereby to firmly position the calendar attachment onthe pedestal rearwardly of the rockers 12.

The calendar will be provided in various colors to harmonize with thepresent day telephone color schemes, providing a color-full calendar pad23 which will fit right on to the telephone set.

While various changes may be made in the detail construction, it shallbe understood that such changes shall be within the spirit and scope ofthe present invention as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus set forth and disclosed the nature of my invention, what isclaimed is:

1. A calendar attachment for telephones, having a rearwardly openingfinger grip housing and an inclined pedestal surface extendingdownwardly therefrom comprising, in combination, a pair of transverselyspaced base portions adapted to be supported upon the inclined pedestalsurface, an upwardly and rearwardly extending calendar supporting wallsecured to the forward edge of said base portions, a substantiallyvertical support secured at their lowermost extremities to the rearwardedge of each of said base portions and engaged at their uppermostextremities with said supporting wall, and a forwardly extendingflexible tongue secured at its rearmost edge to the bottom edge of saidsupporting wall between said base portions, said tongue being adapted tobe folded upwardly and rearwardly within the finger grip opening.

2. A calendar attachment as set forth in claim 1, wherein said verticalsupports include extensions of reduced size at their upper extremities,and said supporting wall comprises a plurality of vertically spacedslots for selectively receiving said extensions to vary the angle ofinclination of said supporting wall.

3. A calendar as set forth in claim 2, wherein said supporting walltogether with said base portions and said vertical supports comprise asubstantially rigid structure, said tongue being operative toresiliently resist rearward movement of said rigid structure androtation thereof about said rearmost edge of said base portions.

